DOVE VALLEY — It has been nearly a decade since Willis McGahee suffered a horrific knee injury in his final college football game. But McGahee hasn’t forgotten what that injury felt like physically and emotionally.

That’s a big reason why last week he tracked down the cell phone number for Denver South running back Phillip Lindsay, a University of Colorado recruit, to offer encouragement. Lindsay tore his ACL on Aug. 31 and had surgery last week.

“I’m just letting him know what he had to do, what it akes and what is going to make him a better person,” McGahee said Wednesday. “It’s going to be a grind for him.
Once you get through this, everything else is going to be easy. You’ll be able to handle anything else that comes your way.”

Lindsay told MileHighSports.com that it was a “big deal”[1] that McGahee reached out to him. Lindsay also tweeted about it[2], writing: “Willis Mcgahee jus called to check on me idk how he got l number but i appreciate him taking the time talk about staying positive!! #tight!”